Alliance Starts Plan to Improve Land Trusts (washingtonpost.com)

Alliance Starts Plan to Improve Land Trusts (washingtonpost.com): "Alliance Starts Plan to Improve Land Trusts
Association Moves to Train and Accredit Conservation Organizations
By Joe Stephens
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 20, 2005; Page A08
A national conservation group announced yesterday that it is launching a $3 million program to improve ethics and governance at the nation's 1,500 land trusts.
The Land Trust Alliance, the nation's leading association of conservation organizations, is bankrolling the effort largely through a $1 million challenge grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The grant will help the alliance train and accredit conservation groups, part of a broad effort to improve professionalism and weed out rogue nonprofits"